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	Alabama Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alabama Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States that was formed by the eastern portion of the Mississippi Territory.
		The territory was organized March 3, 1817, shortly before Mississippi became a state.
		Just two years later, on December 14, 1819, Alabama was admitted to the union as the 22nd U.S. state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alabama_Territory (160 words)

	Mississippi Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mississippi Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States from April 7, 1798, and expanded twice (in 1804 and 1812), until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee.
		The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 from land that had been disputed by the U.S. and Spain until Spain ceded claim with Treaty of Madrid in 1795.
		In 1817 the Mississippi Territory was divided, when the western portion became the state of Mississippi, and the eastern became the Alabama Territory, with St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi_Territory (367 words)

	Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The legislative branch is the Alabama Legislature, a bicameral assembly composed of the Alabama House of Representatives, with 105 members, and the Alabama Senate, with 35 members.
		Alabama is an alcoholic beverage control state; the government holds a monopoly on the sale of alcohol.
		Alabama is one of the most conservative states in the country; Shelby County, in suburban Birmingham, and the city of San Francisco, California are the closest pair of greatly populated areas to being political polar opposites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alabama (2203 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alabama
		Mississippi Territory was created by Act of Congress, 7 April, 1798, and under this and subsequent Acts of enlargement the present States of Alabama and Mississippi constituted one Territory until 1817.
		On 1 March, 1817, Alabama Territory was formed, and after the adoption of a constitution under an Enabling Act of 2 March, 1819, the State was, 14 December, formally admitted into the Federal Union.
		Later the northern part of the territory now embraced in the State was under the Archbishop of Baltimore, while the southern was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Louisiana and Florida.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01240a.htm (4101 words)

	Boundary Changes in Southeast Alabama
		Alabama's Pike County was established by an Act of the State Legislature, passed 17 December 1821, from portions of Henry and Montgomery counties.
		Alabama Territory was created in 1817, and became a state in 1819.
		When Alabama Territory was established, one of the counties established by the Alabama Territorial Legislature was Conecuh County, covering practically all of southeast Alabama.
	www.genealogymagazine.com /boundary.html (344 words)

	History of Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1817 the Mississippi Territory was divided; the portion became the state of Mississippi and the eastern portion became the Alabama Territory with St. Stephens on the Tombigbee as the temporary seat of government.
		This caused a disagreement between Alabama the United States authorities; although it was settled it engendered a feeling that the of the national government might not be harmony with the interests of the state--a which intensified by the slavery agitation did to cause secession in 1861.
		In the early part of the Civil War Alabama was not the scene of operations yet the state contributed about 120 men to the Confederate service practically all white population capable of bearing arms and of these attained the rank of general.
	www.freeglossary.com /History_of_Alabama (2320 words)

	Mississippi Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mississippi Territory was was a historic organized territory of the United States from April 7 1798 and expanded twice (in 1804 and until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee.
		The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 land that had been disputed by the and Spain until Spain ceded claim with Treaty of Madrid in 1795.
		In 1817 the Mississippi Territory was divided when western portion became the state of Mississippi the eastern became the Alabama Territory with St. Stephens on the Tombigbee as the temporary seat of government.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mississippi_Territory (408 words)

	Alabama News
		The Territory of Mississippi, which included parts of present-day Alabama, was set up in 1798, but the land was still largely a wilderness with a considerable fur trade, centered at Saint Stephens, and with only the beginnings of cotton cultivation.
		In Alabama the slave-owning planters were dominant because of the prosperous cotton crop, and as the Civil War loomed closer, the support of Southern rights and secession sentiment grew under the urging of “fire-eaters” such as William L. Yancey.
		In the Reconstruction era Alabama's government was dominated by the so-called carpetbaggers and scalawags, and corruption was widespread.
	www.geocities.com /airspirit333/Alabama.html (1539 words)

	Alabama History and Genealogy
		Alabama was the fourth state to secede from the Union, January 11, 1861.
		Alabama is the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products and the only state with all the major natural resources needed to make iron and steel.
		The Alabama Department of Archives is the oldest state-funded archival agency in the nation.
	www.alabamagen.bravepages.com /migrations/index.html (378 words)

	Alabama Government State Capital Montgomery Governor Bob Riley Alabama State Motto
		The third Alabama Constitution, the 1865 Constitution, was declared as Alabama reunited with the Union at the end of the Civil War.
		Acts or resolutions regarding the Alabama Constitution that are approved in the legislature are not submitted to the Governor of the state for his or her approval.
		Alabama's first motto, "Here We Rest," was approved by a Republican legislature after the Civil War, during the period referred to as "Reconstruction." It was approved with the adoption of a new state seal, replacing the one that had been used for 50 years.
	www.netstate.com /states/government/al_government.htm (3399 words)

	The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States - Alabama
		The Mississippi Territory was divided in 1807 and, in that year, the new Alabama Territory enacted its own code.
		The Alabama Supreme Court decided without analysis that, even with the adoption of common-law crimes by the state, that sodomy was not indictable under it.
		It was not until 1977 that the Alabama legislature made a change to the law, reducing its status from a felony to a misdemeanor and exempting married couples from its reach.
	www.sodomylaws.org /sensibilities/alabama.htm (3062 words)

	State of Alabama History
		Alabama became a state 14 December 1819 and, in 1835, the last native lands were ceded.
		Railroads were completed across the state in the 1870s, leading to the industry of mining of Alabama's rich mineral deposits of coal, iron ore, and limestone.
		Alabama's industry and commerce grew with the United States' entry into World War I. Agricultural production increased, and a significant growth in Mobile's shipbuilding industry led to increased foreign trade.
	www.myalabamagenealogy.com /al_state/history.htm (799 words)

	The Avalon Project : Alabama : Constitution of 1819
		The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments; and each of them confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.
		In the event of the annexation of any foreign territory to this State, by a cession from the United States, laws may be passed, extending to the inhabitants of such territory all the rights and privileges which may be required by the terms of such cession; any thing in this Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
		All laws and parts of laws, now in force in the Alabama Territory, which are not repugnant to the provisions of this Constitution, shall continue and remain in force as the laws of this State, until they expire by their own limitation, or shall be altered, or repealed by the Legislature thereof.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/states/al/ala1819.htm (4501 words)

	ALGenWeb: Alabama Genealogy on the Internet
		Alabama became a part of the Mississippi Territory in 1798 after Indian cessions in north Alabama.
		In 1817, the Alabama Territory was created, and Alabama became the 22nd in December 1819.
		Alabama law did not require the recording of birth or death certificates until 1908.
	www.rootsweb.com /~algenweb (271 words)

	Alabama Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alabama Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States that was created out of the the eastern portion of Mississippi Territory.
		The territory was organized March 3 1817 shortly before Mississippi became a state and just two later on December 14 1819 Alabama was admitted as the 22nd
		This book provides an eyewitness account of the events which were going on in the southeastern states, and probably over the rest of the country, during the period when the Indian people were being degraded and their culture destoyed and replaced by the E...
	www.freeglossary.com /Alabama_Territory (335 words)

	Alabama Legislative History Overview
		The Territorial Government section includes complete copies of the Acts creating the Mississippi Territory, the Alabama Territory and the Resolution of the Alabama Territorial Assembly, petitioning Congress to grant statehood to Alabama.
		Alabama's Constitutions are necessary to any understanding of Alabama history, and particularly, the powers and constraints of state government during the periods in which they were operative.
		The Constitution of 1819 was certainly reactive to the territorial experience; the Constitution of 1861, was reactive to a protracted sectional debate that began even before the Northwest Ordinance was modified so as to allow for slaveholding in the Mississippi Territory.
	www.legislature.state.al.us /misc/history/histoverview.html (1241 words)

	The University of Alabama System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The University of Alabama was foreseen in the Constitutional Convention in Huntsville, Alabama Territory, on July 5, 1819.
		At the second session of the General Assembly, December 18, 1819, an act was passed establishing a seminary of learning "to be denominated the University of Alabama." The university opened for admission of students on April 18, 1831, in Tuscaloosa.
		This action established the University of Alabama in Birmingham as one of the three major campuses of the university.
	main.uab.edu /show.asp?durki=16543 (285 words)

	Autauga County, Alabama Genealogy
		Autauga was established by an act of the territorial legislature, passed November 21,1818, and lies in the centre of the State.
		The commercial facilities are the Alabama river, whose sinuous course waters its southern boundary, and is navigable the greater portion of the year; seven miles of the railway from Selma to Rome, and thirteen miles of the railway from Montgomery to Decatur.
		The only governor of Alabama Territory, and the first governor of the State, lived and died in this county.
	www.alabamagenealogy.org /autauga/index.htm (622 words)

	Deeks & Company, Inc.
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		Territory: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee(east of I-65 including Nashville) and Virginia (south of and including Richmond).
		Territory: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
	www.deeks.com /default.asp?W=Principals (948 words)

	Intruders; an 1820 Claim to Congress. Alabama Territory, 1817. TNGenNet Inc.
		Land west of Madison County (then Territory of Mississippi) was ceded by a Chickasaw 1816 cession, so by 1817, technically and realistically, the only land that could be intruded upon by John McCartney’s cattle was the land east of Madison County.
		Alabama Territory was created from the eastern part of the old Territory of Mississippi.
		Although the Alabama Territory was created by an Act of Congress, 3 Mar 1817, it did not become effective until 15 Aug 1817.
	www.tngenweb.org /tnland/intruders/claim-537.html (686 words)

	Alabama State Legislature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The legislative body of the Mississippi Territory was composed of the governor and three judges, all appointed by the president of the United States as stated in the Ordinance of 1787.
		An increase in the territory induced Congress to establish a second grade of territorial government, which allowed a legislature.
		This legislature was composed of a house of representatives and a legislative council.
	www.archives.state.al.us /legislat/legislat.html (152 words)

	Chapter 44: ... British Take Mobile Point -- Peace Declared -- The Alabama Territory
		1817: On the 1st March, Congress declared that the Mississippi Territory should be divided, by a line commencing at the mouth of Bear Creek, on the Tennessee, thence to the northwest corner of Washington county, and thence south, with the western limit of that county, to the sea.
		The territory east of the new State of Mississippi, Congress erected into a territorial government, giving it the name of Alabama, from the great river which drained its centre.
		William Wyatt Bibb was appointed Governor of the Alabama Territory.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cmamcrk4/pkt44.html (3369 words)

	Alabama Territories
		This area was settled by the Cherokee and Creek Indians and later became Georgia and Alabama Territory.
		In 1832 the remaining Indian territory was ceded and opened to settlement.
		The band of furtile soil across the center of Alabama was referred to as the "Black Belt" and became valuable territory for many of the large plantations from Georgia and South Carolina.
	members.tripod.com /~wwlowery/alaterr.htm (551 words)

	Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitor's Bureau Website
		The high-tech city of Huntsville which sprawls at the foot of a mountain in North Alabama is equally at home in the 19th century or the 21st.
		Huntsville's tourist attractions reflect the heritage of Alabama's first English-speaking city, the strife of the American Civil War, and the accomplishments of America's rocket scientists.
		Alabama now ranks fifth in the nation for public golf courses per resident.
	www.huntsville.org /abouthsv.php (1223 words)

	Alabama Territory local singles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alabama Territory singles local ads, view webcams, and perform live one on one video chat.
		Alabama Territory offers general interest singles' scene articles such as dating, meeting, and relationships.
		Alabama Territory Meet With A Mate TM is fast and easy to meet local singles for fun and romance.
	local-singles.photoadpersonals.com /postings/12465.html (748 words)

	Baldwin County Alabama
		When Alabama was still considered the Alabama Territory, before Statehood on December 14, 1819, many of the county's settlers, who migrated from the State of Georgia, suggested the county be named after Abraham Baldwin to honor his life and accomplishments.
		In 1900, by an Act of the Legislature of Alabama, the County Seat was authorized for relocation to the City of Bay Minette, however, the City of Daphne resisted relocation.
		As of the 1990 Federal Census 98,290 citizens were delineated in Baldwin County, Alabama, with the United States Bureau of the Census estimating, in 1998, the county's population at 133,268 citizens, and a projected population of over 150,000 in the Year 2000.
	www.co.baldwin.al.us /PageView.asp?PageType=R&edit_id=156 (2956 words)

	The University of Alabama, Brief History
		In 1818, the federal government authorized Alabama Territory to set aside a township for the establishment of a "seminary of learning." Alabama was admitted to the Union on March 2, 1819, and a second township added to the grant.
		It was one of the first five in the nation to do so and one of the few to have maintained accreditation continuously since national accreditation began in 1936.
		In March, the Alabama Legislature decreed that, after thirty years of student protest, the military system of organization at the University be abandoned.
	www.ua.edu /history.html (1687 words)

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